Vasari, Giorgio; Conaway Bondanella, Julia; Bondanella, Peter (1991). The Lives of the Artists. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-953719-8.; In 2017 at the University of Sydney Library, a librarian discovered an original Giorgione sketch that included a definitive date and cause of death for the artist, with an ink inscription that reads "1510 Ihs Maria. On the day of 17 September, Giorgione of Castelfranco, a very excellent artist died of the plague in Venice at the age of 36 and he rests in peace""Dante's Divine Comedy with Giorgione illustration and death notice". University of Sydney Library. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
An old art historians' jibe at Richter, George Martin (1 January 1932). "A Clue to Giorgione's Late Style". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 60 (348): 123–132. JSTOR865045.
"Some recent discoveries supply a little more information about Giorgione′s short life. An inscription on a previously unknown drawing, perhaps by Giorgione, appended to the final page of an edition of Dante's Divine Comedy published in Venice in 1497, gives precise dates for the painter's birth and death, telling us that he died on 17 September 1510, at the age of 36. This would mean that Giorgione was born at some point between 18 September 1473 and 17 September 1474, a few years earlier than had previous been thought...." Tom Nichols, Giorgione's Ambiguity (Reaktion Books, 2020, pp. 19-20); University of Sydney Library. "Dante's Divine Comedy with Giorgione illustration and death notice". Digital Collections. Nichols cites Anderson, Jaynie, et al., "Giorgione in Sydney", Burlington Magazine, CLXI/1392 (March 2019), pp. 190-99.
Vasari, Giorgio; Conaway Bondanella, Julia; Bondanella, Peter (1991). The Lives of the Artists. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-953719-8.; In 2017 at the University of Sydney Library, a librarian discovered an original Giorgione sketch that included a definitive date and cause of death for the artist, with an ink inscription that reads "1510 Ihs Maria. On the day of 17 September, Giorgione of Castelfranco, a very excellent artist died of the plague in Venice at the age of 36 and he rests in peace""Dante's Divine Comedy with Giorgione illustration and death notice". University of Sydney Library. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
